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Late last summer I thought it might be fun to volunteer at the New Haven Folk Festival – so I went looking for its website — and discovered that the event had a different name:
The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo
OK, that was interesting – I figured the organizers were “broadening their scope,” outside the New Haven area – and that they’d also expanded the crafts-and-vendors area that I remembered visiting “up the hill” on the festival site in previous years when I’d gone to a couple of the Festival’s concerts.
I’ve got a hand-crafted mug or bowl from one of those vendor-booths here somewhere, I’m pretty sure.
Whatever —
So, I signed up with Carole Weisberg, the Volunteer Coordinator, and showed up at Edgerton Park on Saturday of the Festival’s weekend to help set stuff up — and:
SURPRISE!
It turned out that the Green Expo was actually a Big Deal – coordinated with the Folk Festival, absolutely – kindred in spirit, definitely — but a unique and distinct and very cool enterprise of its own.
Held on Saturday, from 11 AM through 4 PM, the Expo was spread out through a huge meadow, bordered by tall pines, on the Festival Grounds. (This area apparently was the south lawn of the sprawling estate that’s now Edgerton Park.) There were about 75 vendors and exhibitors – each carefully-selected and offering lots of interesting displays — and people explaining them.
Crafts and food, too – and plenty of Big Fun children’s activities –– all while live music was being performed on the Festival’s stage.
And lots of people came — really, the place was filled with energy and laughing and learning — it was just: well, I was glad to be there…
All-in-all: very very cool – and tightly-themed. All exhibitors and vendors in tune with the Green Expo’s stated purpose:
The CT Green Expo provides real solutions for people to live better, healthier lives with less impact on the environment.
Anyway, I really enjoyed last year’s Green Expo – and I suspect that this year’s edition, under the direction of the apparently-indefatigable Co Campbell, should be even better!
Same site: EdgertonPark
(located on New Haven’s Whitney Avenue near the Hamden town line)
Admission: Free!
Date: this Saturday (September 10th)
Time: 11 AM until 4 PM
You can get Much More Info, including a listing of exhibitors and children’s activities, by following this link: http://www.ctfolk.com/ctff/greenexpo.html
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